Podcasts about contra costa animal services

Diva Duck Shellie Powell has an unusual pet. She is the proud guardian of "Diva," a pet duck that wears a diaper and shoes. Diva goes with Shellie everywhere, including Walmart, Target and PetSmart. Shellie is training Diva the Duck to be a Therapy Pet. Listen Now Taking The Fear Free Movement Home Many veterinarians are practicing "Fear Free." Pets that like going to the veterinarian are generally healthier. Now, the Fear Free movement is coming to your home with ideas for enriching your pet's life everyday. Dr. Marty Becker is back to explain how your pets can live an improved lifestyle. Listen Now Can Kissing Your Pet Make You Fat? Researchers are looking into the connection between having a pet and obesity. They are interested in gut health and trying to find out if certain microbial swaps (such as a kiss or a lick with your pet) might help or hurt when it comes to weight problems in both pets and people. Current evidence actually suggests heavier people have heavier pets, which some scientists believe could be due to microbial swaps from a human to a dog. Listen Now How Hot is Too Hot? Your dog doesn't need to be in a hot car to suffer from heat exhaustion. Temperatures above 82 degrees are enough to cause a fatal reaction. Steve Burdo from Contra Costa Animal Services sat inside his Acura as temperatures soared about 115 degrees. He did this to bring attention to the new California law that allows people to break into cars to rescue hot animals. Listen Now Scammer Targets Lost Pets The number of pet related fraud cases are on the rise. The latest is Texas where a woman's cat mysteriously disappeared from the front porch where he would take his afternoon nap every day. The day after he vanished, she put up fliers all over her neighborhood. Less than a week later, she received a call from a man who asked if there was a reward for the cats return. He then said she could get Romeo back for $300 and offered to finance the payments for 8 months! Listen Now Read more about this week's show.

In this episode, Mara Velez talks about the value of behavior modification as stress-reducing enrichment for shelter dogs. We discuss:The use of desensitization and counter-conditioning to help dogs learn how to appropriately interact with conspecificsThe lack of positive reinforcement training focused behavior conferences for shelters and the reasons behind itCatering behavior modification exercises to the skillset of the handlers The effectiveness of using of constructional aggression treatment (CAT) in shelter behavior modification programsShy dog adopter's guideIt's good welfare to work on behavior modification in sheltersMara's bio:Mara Velez (CPDT-KA) is the Executive Director of the Shelter Playgroup Alliance and a Certified Professional Dog Trainer.  Prior to co-founding the Shelter Playgroup Alliance, Mara spent over a decade in sheltering, including several years as a behavior and training consultant at Contra Costa Animal Services, an open-admission county shelter, where she collaboratively designed, developed, and implemented behavior program structures, including a robust volunteer training program, a behavior evaluation, and canine enrichment and playgroup guidelines.  Mara is also the executive director of Humane Dog Training Advocates a non-profit focused on owner education, which features a surrender diversion program. Mara holds bachelors and master's degrees in psychology and completed all of the course work for a doctorate in education.Links:https://www.shelterdogplay.org/https://www.shelterdogplay.org/2022-conferencehttps://www.humanedogtrainingadvocates.com/https://www.humanedogtrainingadvocates.com/webinarsShy Dog Adopter's GuideAn example of shelter dog behavior modification with positive reinforcementTheme music composed and performed by Andy Sells

This week, Mara Velez of Shelter Playgroup Alliance joins Tabitha to discuss enrichment for shelter dogs. Enrichment is a need for all shelter animals. Animals have natural behaviors and needs, and they must have opportunities to express those behaviors. Enrichment provides needed mental and physical stimulation, improves quality of life, decreases stress, decreases unwanted behaviors, and length of stay. It helps to increase adoptions, provide choices, can manage, and prevent behavior problems, and keeps animals in their new homes. Mara and I discuss the importance of enrichment, the struggles we have seen due to animals having inappropriate or no enrichment, what appropriate enrichment is, and more! About our guest:Mara Velez, MA, CPDT-KA, is the Executive Director of two non-profits: the Shelter Playgroup Alliance and Humane Dog Training Advocates.  She is also a Certified Professional Dog Trainer.  Mara has been working in the shelter setting for almost 15 years.  Mara was a behavior and training consultant at Contra Costa Animal Services where she collaboratively designed, developed, and implemented behavior program structures, including a robust volunteer training program, revised behavior evaluation, canine enrichment and playgroup guidelines.  It was these guidelines that served as the basis for the Shelter Playgroup Alliance guidelines. Mara holds both a bachelors and master's degree in psychology and completed all of the course work for a doctorate in education.   In addition to completing several animal behavior and training-related programs, Mara continually develops her skills and knowledge of canines by attending seminars and reading science-based canine literature. To date, she has completed over 3,000 hours of continuing education. Mara also enjoys training other species because it expands her training and observation skills. She has worked with: cats, bunnies, wolves, foxes, guinea pigs, coyotes, buffalo, donkeys, goats, alpacas, chickens, birds, and fish.Related Show Links:Shelter Playgroup AllianceSPA Shelter Behavior and Enrichment Conference Humane Dog Training AdvocatesSupport the show via social media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TailsFromRVTFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TailsFromAVetTechPodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tailsfromavettech/Have a question you'd like answered on the show? Send us an email!tailsfromarvt@gmail.com

Sue Hall speaks with Steve Burdo with Contra Costa Animal Services about their programs and services. During the month of June they provide many low cost vaccines, micro chips and adoptions! 4th of July is often a very scary time for pets. Learn more here! http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/59/Animal-Services

The Bay Area Pet Fair, hosted by Pet Food Express, is on Saturday and Sunday, September 16 & 17, from 10:00am to 5:00pm. In Pleasanton, California at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. It is California’s largest pet adoption event, and the goal is 1,500 adoptions. http://www.bayareapetfair.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bayareapetfair Thanks to Drew Saldivar and Hannah Lee, high school volunteers from College Park HS in Pleasant Hill, CA. Paul Renaud is their Advanced Media Communications teacher. Use the minute markers to fast forward to your favorite interview. 1:54 Drew Saldivar, high school videographer 3:32 Kelly Miott, Oakland Animal Services http://www.oaklandanimalservices.org 5:23 Terry Messer, FurEver Animal Rescue http://www.fureveranimalrescue.org 6:58 Sarah Chambless, Pawsitive Connections http://www.pawsitiveconnections.org 8:07 Jody Somel and Yolanda Gutierrez, Westside Animals for Adoption http://www.westsideanimalsforadoption.com 9:27 Jill Marsh, No Paws Left Behind / Bella Vita Rescue / Andrea's Dream Rescue http://www.nopawsleftbehindrescue.org 11:14 Rosalyn Simon, TriValley Animal Rescue http://tvar.org 12:29 Susan Hanna, German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California http://www.savegsd.org 14:47 Paulette Murillo, Dusty Paws Rescue http://www.dustypawsrescue.org 15:45 Jazmine Salazar, The Milo Foundation http://www.milofoundation.org 16:42 Isabelle Cnudde and Lori Woods, Animal Place http://animalplace.org 18:56 Celine Dion, SaveABunny http://saveabunny.org 20:48 Steve Amos and Virginie Adruga, Contra Costa Animal Services www.ccasd.org/ 24:15 Joseph O'Donnell, Berkeley Humane https://berkeleyhumane.org 26:19 Luis Sanchez, Pets Lifeline http://www.petslifeline.org 28:33 Debbie Christian, Sonoma County Animal Shelter http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Health/Animal-Services/ 30:53 Darlis Manning, attendee Harold and Nancy will be at the Bay Area Pet Fair conducting interviews! Make sure to visit our booth and say hello. About Nancy and Harold Rhee We have been married over 20 years, fostered over 60 dogs in the past four years, and we love animal rescue and the amazing people who dedicate their lives. And of course, the dogs and cats! If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000 About Pawprint Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights.  http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com Don’t miss any new episodes. Sign up for our email list. If you want to join our animal rescue community and receive two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/ About Pawprint’s Music All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is based in Brisbane, Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://info.vanillagroovemedia.com http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton

Diva Duck Shellie Powell has an unusual pet. She is the proud guardian of "Diva," a pet duck that wears a diaper and shoes. Diva goes with Shellie everywhere, including Walmart, Target and PetSmart. Shellie is training Diva the Duck to be a Therapy Pet. Taking The Fear Free Movement Home Many veterinarians are practicing "Fear Free." Pets that like going to the veterinarian are generally healthier. Now, the Fear Free movement is coming to your home with ideas for enriching your pet's life everyday. Dr. Marty Becker is back to explain how your pets can live an improved lifestyle. Can Kissing Your Pet Make You Fat? Researchers are looking into the connection between having a pet and obesity. They are interested in gut health and trying to find out if certain microbial swaps (such as a kiss or a lick with your pet) might help or hurt when it comes to weight problems in both pets and people. Current evidence actually suggests heavier people have heavier pets, which some scientists believe could be due to microbial swaps from a human to a dog. Scammer Targets Lost Pets The number of pet related fraud cases are on the rise. The latest is Texas where a woman's cat mysteriously disappeared from the front porch where he would take his afternoon nap every day. The day after he vanished, she put up fliers all over her neighborhood. Less than a week later, she received a call from a man who asked if there was a reward for the cats return. He then said she could get Romeo back for $300 and offered to finance the payments for 8 months! How Hot is Too Hot? Your dog doesn't need to be in a hot car to suffer from heat exhaustion. Temperatures above 82 degrees are enough to cause a fatal reaction. Steve Burdo from Contra Costa Animal Services sat inside his Acura as temperatures soared about 115 degrees. He did this to bring attention to the new California law that allows people to break into cars to rescue hot animals. Read more about this week's show.

Nancy and Harold discuss three animal rescue events that made last weekend great. And exhausting. But mostly great! On Friday, Nancy helped with a Wings of Rescue flight, the third one of 2017 Nancy worked on. She worked hard to coordinate the flight of sixteen dogs from Northern California to a variety of no-kill shelters in Spokane, Washington. Nancy shares some of her thoughts from that day. On Saturday, Nancy and Harold attended the Business of Saving Lives conference which brings together many animal rescue people from the San Francisco Bay Area. It was the thirteenth annual event at Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation. Some great speakers, including Dr. Regan McGowan; Erin Kerley and Audra Farrell; Renee Harris; and especially, Dr. Kate Hurley. On Sunday, it was St. Pitty’s Day at Contra Costa Animal Services, an event that attracts potential adopters to meet a wide variety of dogs from Contra Costa Animal Services and other rescue organizations. Nancy and Harold discuss the adoption of Sedona, a beautiful pitbull mix. Wings of Rescue Website https://www.wingsofrescue.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WingsofRescue Tony La Russa’s ARF (Animal Rescue Foundation) Website https://www.arflife.org Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tlrarf Contra Costa Animal Services, host of St. Pitty’s Day http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/59/Animal-Services https://www.facebook.com/ccasd/?ref=hl No Worries (Filipino Vegan Food) http://www.filipinoveganfood.com https://www.facebook.com/NoWorriesVegan/ Other rescue organizations at St. Pitty’s Day Contra Costa Humane https://www.cchumane.org https://www.facebook.com/ContraCostaHumaneSociety/ Tails of Gray http://www.tailsofgray.org https://www.facebook.com/tailsofgray The Milo Foundation http://milofoundation.org https://www.facebook.com/milofoundation/ Underdog Animal Rescue http://www.underdogca.com https://www.facebook.com/underdogCA/   About Nancy and Harold Rhee We have been married over 20 years, fostered over 60 dogs in the past four years, and we love animal rescue and the amazing people who dedicate their lives. And of course, the dogs and cats! If you want to learn more about Nancy and Harold, go to our About Us page at http://thisispawprint.com/about or listen to our introductory podcast episode, "Fifty Puppies and a Podcast." http://thisispawprint.com/000 About Pawprint Pawprint (or Paw Print) is a weekly podcast dedicated to animal rescue, adoption, and the heroes who make it happen. Volunteer, walk, adopt, or foster a dog, cat, rabbit, or other wonderful pet through your local shelter, humane society, SPCA, pound, and animal control. Stop abuse, and help increase animal protection, welfare, and rights.  http://thisispawprint.com http://animalrescuepodcast.com Sign up for our email list If you want to join our animal rescue community and receive two free bonus dog-training resources from Irith Bloom, positive reinforcement dog trainer, go to http://thisispawprint.com/ask. Irith can be found at http://www.thesophisticateddog.com/ About Pawprint’s Music All of Pawprint's music is composed by Luke Gartner-Brereton. Luke is based in Australia, and he composes a wide variety of songs and musical loops http://vanillagroovestudios.com http://soundcloud.com/luke-gartnerbrereton